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Christina Book: Trump practices, Russia link should be investigated

By Christina Book

Posted:
11/17/2016 07:35:35 PM MST

I just wrote to our Colorado senators to urge initiation of an immediate investigation into the criminal activities of the president-elect, Donald J. Trump, and I encourage you to take similar action. If you support Trump, you should be as interested as I am in getting to the bottom of the huge list of criminal allegations that congeal around this reality TV star. We all deserve to know what is true and what is not.

During the campaign, several extremely troubling facts were brought to light and either ignored or dismissed by the accused. Now that he is the president-elect, I demand that there be a full accounting and investigation of the ongoing pattern of criminal and unethical acts.

For example, a very limited list: Our next president is alleged to have broken contracts by refusing to pay for services rendered. That he has bankrupted hard-working business owners through ongoing, baseless litigation. That he has assaulted women.

Since the election, Vladimir Putin has stated that he maintained contact with the Trump campaign throughout the election. During this election, there has been evidence of cyber-hacking that, it could be argued, benefited the president-elect. I demand an investigation into the specifics of Russia's involvement in the U.S. presidential election.

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Let's all just imagine, for a moment, that the previous list were not tied to Trump, but to Obama. In that imaginary world, would the weekend media cycle have ignored these various allegations? Why did we allow a great man, President Obama, to be relentlessly hounded by specious accusations? Is it because he's black? I fear so.

America is in crisis, and our hope lies in the power of our combined and amplified love and rage toward those who undermine the ideals of our great nation. United, we are powerful. Take heart, and with laughter and tears let's get busy on the fight of our lives.

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